BACK FROM THE BRINK

PUB. DATE

January 2006

SOURCE

Weekly Reader News - Senior;1/27/2006, Vol. 84 Issue 17, p2

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article offers information on various endangered animals that have recovered under the Endangered Species Act as of 2006. The population of the bald eagle which was considered an endangered specie in 1963 and a threatened specie in 1992 has grown. The Hawaiian green sea turtle which became protected by the Act in 1978 has grown from a few hundred. Sea otters which gained protected status in 1977 have grown its population and now frolic in the U.S. waters.

ACCESSION #

19501185

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